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Pimburattewa Tank in Sri Lanka, a marvel of ancient engineering, was constructed by King Parakramabahu I in the 12th century.

Fingal’s Cave off the coast of Scotland

Same place, 58 years apart. And guess what, the 2nd one has much more capacity..

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A Mysterious Grove of 400 Oddly Bent Pine Trees in Poland

This is the largest gold nugget ever found in Alaska, it weighs 294.10 troy ounces (9.1 kgs).

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Skeleton in Egypt is 35,000 years old

YOU CAN STILL SEE THE ROOT SYSTEM TO THIS ANCIENT, BIBLICAL TREE TRUNK

A 2300 years old Scythian woman's boot preserved in the frozen ground of the Altai Mountains.

📸 This skull, pierced by an iron nail, belonged to a young man, between 16 and 18 years old, who died in the late third or early second century BC.

We're in the Iberian town of Ullastret, located in the Baix Emporda region of Catalonia, home to the largest Iberian settlement in Catalonia dating to around 550 BC.

Here, in the Iron Age, the heads of defeated enemies would be prepared and publically displayed alongside seized weapons.

This ritual custom reaffirmed the powers of the leaders. It was common in Celtic cultures that head trophies were hung from the backs of horses or displayed in front of houses of victorious warriors.

The inhabitants of Ullastret were the Indiketes, an ancient Iberian people who spoke the Iberian language.

In 218 BC they were conquered by Rome during the Roman conquest of Hispania. They rebelled in 195 BC only to be crushed by the consul Marcus Porcious Cato.

Gold Sandals of King Shoshenq II

Third Intermediate Period, 22nd Dynasty, ca. 887-885 BC. From Tanis. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.

2000-year-old marble thrones at the ancient theatre of Amphiareion of Oropos, Greece.

The Amphiareion at Oropos, sanctuary of the hero Amphiaraos, was greatly famed and frequented by pilgrims who went to seek oracular responses and healing.

The largest building in the sanctuary is a stoa (mid-4th century BC) which served as the enkoimeterion for the patients.

The sanctuary also contained a theatre. The theatre is dated to the 2nd century BCE by inscriptions and the seating area was likely composed of wooden seats on stone supports.

Five marble prohedria (seat of honor at the front of the seating area) were discovered placed around the orchestra.

200-year-old wooden bridge in Dagestan, built without the use of a single nail.

Military Cycle With Spring Wheel. Early 1900s

The enduring architecture of a great culture-Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, USA.

Did you know that one stone in the pyramid weighs between 2 tons to 15 tons.
The number of stones in the pyramid is about 3 million.
The weight of the granite stone in the ceiling of the King's Chamber reaches 70 tons!
(No one knows how the ancient Egyptians carried, cut, and arranged these stones despite their enormous size).

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150 million year old dinosaur footprints in France

Ouse Valley Viaduct Bridge
Sussex, England

Discovering the Lost City of Heracleion

For centuries, the city of Heracleion has been shrouded in myth and thought to be a legend. The city, visited by Paris and Helen of Troy, and mentioned by numerous ancient historians such as Diodorus and Herodotus, had been lost for nearly 1,200 years until French archaeologist Franck Goddio discovered it in 2000.
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Thought to have been initially founded in 12th Century BC, the city, also known as Thonis, disappeared deep beneath the surface of the earth 1,200 years ago. Today, the mythical city’s treasures continue to be unearthed. Among the lost treasures found mere kilometres off the coast of Alexandria are giant statues, slabs of stones with ancient Greek and Egyptian inscriptions, dozens of ships, gold coins, bronze statues and more. Below is a collection of photographs taken by Franck Goddio and Christoph Gerigk of what has so far been discovered

Zeugma Mosaic of Icarus and Daedalus
Ancient Greek city of Zeugma, Roman period,
Museum in Gaziantep Zeugma, Turkey

Zeugma was a town along the Euphrates River, founded by Seleucus Nicator, a general and successor to Alexander the Great. In 64 BC, the Romans controlled the city. Zeugma was of great importance to the Romans as it was located at a strategically important place.

Zeugma Mosaic Museum contains mosaics from the site, and is one of the largest mosaic museums in the world.

A 3.300-year-old chariot bridge is still in use today. The Arkadiko Bridge was built between 1300 and 1190 BCE, making it one of the oldest still-used arch bridges still in existence. It was built on a road that linked Tiryns to Epidaurus, and was part of a larger military road system.

The top of the Great Pyramid of Giza.